Today is the first day that Caleb and I have had a break together. I must admit that lately I have had a few days at home by myself relaxing while Caleb and Hector has had to go to other cities for various reasons. I have thoroughly enjoyed the days at home. =) I have been getting the house organized and cleaned slowly but surely. While the move has been stressful in a lot of ways I haven’t really felt worried about too much lately. My Spanish is improving slowly. At first the slowness was frustrating but I am trying to just focus on learning a little better every day through practice and not worry too much. I think for the most part people understand what I am saying or trying to say. I understand more Spanish every day and am confident that one day in the future I will really get the hang of it.
Getting Lobito has really made El Salvador feel more like home. Caleb is going to have a difficult time getting me to move back to the U.S any time soon between the warm weather year round and having a dog here. He has been sick off and on and I sure that he has worms. I am trying to get a day where I can go find a good dewormer but so far that has not happened. Our van is currently in Sonsonate getting some minor repair work. Hopefully once we have the van back we can make a trip to Ahuachapán for dewormer and some ant killer. The ants here could just about carry you off. I want to find a better solution before the baby comes because he/she will not be crawling around in ants.
The pregnancy has gone really well so far. I haven’t had any nausea since about the 11th before then it was only if I didn’t eat fast enough. I need to find a doctor for prenatal care as soon as possible. I am hoping to find one in Ahuachapán that would be close. There is a lady in the congregation that is pregnant and has a midwife and I would like to interview her midwife as well. I am still hoping that Chloe will be able to come to help with the birth. I still need to go look at what baby items I will find here and what I might need the groups to bring down. Although I don’t believe in getting too much stuff until you know for sure you will use it. There are just a few actual “needs” and the rest is just stuff that gets in the way. Luckily I have Rachel here who has had lots of practice and knows what I will need and what I will not. We still plan to wait until the baby is born to find out the gender. That way all of the stuff we do get will be gender neutral. Ha! One night Caleb and I both had dreams about our future baby. In both of our dreams the kid was about a year old. But Caleb dreamed we had a girl and I dreamed we had a boy. One of us is bound to be right. ;) We will know around the end of September or whenever the baby decides to come join the outside. We just want a healthy baby and don’t really care either way.
So far one of the worse things about living here is the noise and the garbage truck. It is really difficult to catch the elusive garbage truck. You cannot just leave your garbage bags sitting out. The dogs around here will tear it up within minutes. You have to listen for the garbage truck’s bell. And it is not the only thing with a bell. I have run out the door to see the ice cream cart man, the bread man, and an unknown product salesman… It is pretty annoying because the thing runs every day except Sunday and for some reason I can only catch it about once a week. Usually it goes by our house at 10 and sometimes 9 and sometimes 12… it just depends. One day maybe I will figure it out. It is a small price to pay for the perfect weather. And at least they do pick up garbage.
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